In Conversation with David Goa

I am pleased to be joined by Pastor Todd Wiebe for this on-going series of conversations on the Ekklesia. I met Todd some years ago and have had the pleasure of working together with him on various occasions. His pastoral work has been particular, serving a Brethren Church for many years, a Presbyterian Church for a season and, in the last few years the CapChurch and North Lonsdal

I am pleased to be joined by Pastor Eden Jersak for this on-going series of conversations on the Ekklesia. I am privileged to call Eden, and her husband Brad, friends and have spent many rich hours in conversation with them in their home in Abbotsford. Eden’s understanding of the church as a place of welcome, as a place where you can always add another leaf to the table of fello

I am pleased to be joined by Pastor Donald Sjoberg for this on-going series of conversations on the Ekklesia. Bishop Sjoberg was born in 1930 on a farm near Clanwilliam, Manitoba. His early life was shaped by the Swedish immigrant community and Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Erickson, Manitoba. He studied at Luther College in Regina and at the University of Saskatoon where he was a

This is my third conversation with Calum McCracken. We continue exploring the place of religion in shaping political movements and focus on the rise of Christian Reconstructionism and its current shape, Christian Nationalism.

This is my second conversation with Calum McCracken. We continue exploring the place of religion and public policy in the Civil Rights Movement Calum’s undergraduate studies focused on political philosophy. He is now off to graduate school and will be working on issues of human rights on the international stage.

One of the pleasures of my teaching and curatorial work, in Universities and Museums, has been welcoming young budding scholars to the table. Our research and thinking together has always been fruitful. Today’s conversation kicks off a series of conversations with young scholars on themes I have been privileged to work on with each of them In the last number of months Calum McCr

I am pleased to be joined by Professor Richard Topping for this on-going series of conversations on the Ekklesia. He is President of the Vancouver School of Theology, a federated faculty bringing together students and professors from a variety of churches. He has worked to ground theological education in the gift of Christian scripture, its revelation and call to faithfulness. He s

Mikel is the only person I have known who has met face to face with Ian Paisley, the militant Protestant leader central to the fractured society of Northern Ireland in the 1960s and following. We explore the Baptist idea of doctrinal purity, the “attractional” model of evangelical worship centered on one form or another of spectacle. What attracts people to this model and what

I have had the pleasure over the last decade or so of thinking with Ray Sawatsky about religion and culture. I am delighted to talk with him in this series of conversations on the Ekklesia. He is an astute commenter on the entanglement between a number of political interests and evangelical church leaders. How have these entanglements shaped his generation’s growing unease and di

Pastor Ingrid grew up in post-war Germany and navigated the trauma of the war’s shadow. She discusses the habit of taking refuge in church doctrine as a way of avoiding the responsibility for what unfolded in Germany; the church as a gathering of family and friends, of the like-minded, while teaching engagement with strangers; a church “turned inwards”.